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trainroomgary posted:

WANTED A BETTER PHOTO OF THE - Detroit and Mackinac Railway - Bicentennial Diesel

Gary: Rail-fan

You need to brush up on your internet searching skills. Found the below image in two minutes:

Hi 645 - Thanks 

Do you want to share your searching procedures?      •      Gary: Rail-fan

Did the Preamble Express really cross the country to check clearances and set up schedules? Wouldn't the host railroads have already known where a train like this could go and would fit? I just found this picture of AFT 1 in Chicago, trying to back to Navy Pier.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31203742@N00/33404544295/in/contacts/

Look at just the weeds growing in the track then. Trackage on and near the pier itself was one thing, but to get there required a sharp curve just out of this picture, and then passing under the Merchandise Mart, Sun Times Building, and Wrigley Building on an industrial spur was something else. I recall a story of Santa Fe wanting to show off one of its then-new full dome passenger cars under the Sun Times Building. IIRC, the dome didn't fit under the Mercandise Mart, so it was left not where it was originally planned. If a Preamble crew had come to Chicago and checked, wouldn't they have known AFT 1 not making it on those rickety tracks?

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